Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

Programmers write, test, and troubleshoot code for software and applications. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projects a 10% decline in U.S. programmer employment between 2020 and 2030, due to ...

Most job postings for software developers list a degree in Computer Science as a preferred item, if not a requirement. But are these degrees indicators of better developers? A recent survey from ...

Ever find yourself staring at a tricky coding problem and thinking, “shit”? If those thoughts make their way into your code or the associated comments, you’re in good company. When undergraduate ...

Have computer programmers innovated themselves out of a job? That’s the fear driving theories that AI will remove the need for humans who can write computer code. Today's most sophisticated large ...

In 2020, Google identified that more than 70% of its Chrome browser’s severe security bugs were in fact caused by memory safety issues. “That is,” the Chrome team said, “mistakes with pointers in the ...

Computer-programming employment fell steeply after the introduction of ChatGPT and has returned to its lowest level since 1980. Computer-programming employment in the U.S. has reached its lowest level ...

Because of my recent experience in helping to form a professional association for computer programmers, I’m often asked about the prospects for expanding unions within the profession. Despite some ...